Boydell & Brewer

A data-rich study dealing in uncertainties and ambiguities. . . . Instructive and often revelatory — Musical Times More…

[Santos has] much to say about the dramatic representation of Lulu herself, and the role of a tonality-acknowledging 12-tone technique in that representation. Makes good use of the multiplicity... — Musical Times More…

[A] rewarding glimpse of formative times, one that leaves you wanting more. Four stars out of five — BBC Music Magazine More…

The book is beautifully produced, with lots of good illustrations and musical examples [...] In a sense it is a monument, not just to one scholar, but to a whole generation in which some of... — Music and Letters More…

What makes the book particularly worthwhile is its careful contextualization of the major fin-de-siecle revivals of eighteenth-century operas including abundant selections from critical discourse.... — Nineteenth-Century Music Review More…

Takes a unique approach to Gioachino Rossini and five of his operas. The author puts the operas in historical context and argues that they could have been written only in a post-revolutionary... — Choice More…

One of the most important eleventh-century music treatises written north of the Alps. A substantial introduction [by Snyder] gives a solid overview of the contents of the treatise and of its... — Revue de musicologie More…

Accomplished and absorbing. . . . One of the strongest recent contributions to Wagner studies — Musical Times More…